Audio
The log-frequency-axis spectrograms used here are my own work and unique to the wikidelia.
If you are studying a piece of Delia's music for which I haven't done the spectrogram yet, you can write and I'll do it next.
Undated
Air
Door To Door
Music to Undress to
Reconstructed from Delia's manuscript score and played on a cheesy MIDI piano
The Delian Mode
1962
Time On Our Hands
City Music
Arabic Science and Industry
1963
Doctor Who
Know Your Car
1964
Mattachin
Talk Out
Science and Health
From BBC Radiophonic Workshop 21
The Cyprian Queen
- Clip from Wee Have Also Sound Houses
The Anger of Achilles
- 1. Achilles' plea to his goddess mother Thetis (1:13)
- 2. Thunderclap (0:13)
- 3. The sending of the false dream to Agamemnon (2:00)
- 4. Father Zeus' message, thunderclap, horse effects (1:08)
- 5. Thetis theme reprise (0:36)
Invention for Radio #1: The Dreams
- 1. Running (8:08)
- 2. Falling (8:45)
- 3. Land (7:02)
- 4. Sea (8:31)
- 5. Colour (6:23)
A shorter version was prepared for overseas broadcast
- The Dreams Tx (Third) 5.1.1964 (27:24)
with:
- 1. Running (3:48)
- 2. Falling (7:47)
- 3. Sea (8:31)
- 4. Colour (6:23)
Invention for Radio #2: Amor Dei
- 1. Groping towards God
- 2. Rorate Coeli (9:02)
- 3. "I'd like to believe in God, but..."
- 4. "There IS a God!"
1965
Invention for Radio #3: The Afterlife
Recorded from the radio with
- 1. "Death is going from shadow into reality" (7:47)
- 2. "It's just like going to sleep" (11:09)
- 3. "Light. Everywhere is light." (10:30)
- 4. "Death is just a changing" (10:14)
Invention for Radio #4: The Evenings of Certain Lives
- Sculptress of Sound clip 1
- Sculptress of Sound clip 2
Oranges and Lemons
1966
Ziwzih Ziwzih OO-OO-OO
Moogies Bloogies
From delia-derbyshire.org
Way Out
From Music from The Tomorrow People
A Game of Chess
From Delia's listening copy of final tape, 21st September 1966:
- 1. King solo
- 2. Bishop solo
- 3. Queen solo
- 4. Pawn solo (1)
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- 5. Pawn solo (2)
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- 6. Knight solo
- 7. Castle solo
- 8. Pawn and Knight duet
- 9. King and Queen duet
- 10. Castle and Bishop Duet
- 11. Game A
- 12. Game B
1967
Happy Birthday
Score is dated "3.67"; first broadcast on 30th April 1968.
A New View of Politics
From BBC Radiophonic Workshop 21
Ape and Essence
Reconstructed from her manuscript and played on a cheesy MIDI piano
Chromophone Band
Towards Tomorrow
Blue Veils and Golden Sands
Macbeth (1967)
- A 49-second clip from These Hopeful Machines
1968
Pot Au Feu
Le Pont Mirabeau
Reconstructed from her manuscript and played on a cheesy MIDI piano
The Naked Sun
- "Heat Haze"
- "Frozen Waste"
- "Icy Peak"
- Scene 4
Anything Goes
Reconstructed from her manuscript and played on a cheesy MIDI piano
Work Is A Four Letter Word
- 1. First theme: "I love you, Betty"
- 2. Second theme; semitone chord theme: "Mrs Murray? You're beautiful"
- 3. Delia's theme; first theme reprise: "Val, oh Val, you have such lovely ears"
- 4. Climbing theme; second theme: "They had been climbing, it seemed, for hours
- 5. Spangles; Delia's theme
- 6. Second theme reprise
- 7. Second theme slow: "I'm just gonna see to me mushrooms, Betty"
- 8. Acciaccatura theme
- 9. Semitone cheeps and mushroom-eating finale
An Electric Storm
Love Without Sound
My Game of Loving
Here come the Fleas
Firebird
Your Hidden Dreams
The Visitation
The Black Mass: An Electric Storm in Hell
Clothes
1969
Environmental Studies
- From BBC Radiophonic Workshop 21
- From Gnutella, a semitone higher and with attack on the bells
Chronicle
John Peel's Voice
Great Zoos of the World
From BBC Radiophonic Workshop 21
Shakespeare's Hamlet
- 1st apparition
- 2nd apparition
- 3rd apparition
- 4th apparition
ESL104
Lure of the Space Goddess
Gothic Submarine
London Lemons (9 themes)
Restless Relays
Planetarium
Way Out
Fresh Aire
Delia's Theme
Tentative Delia
Delia's Idea
Delia's Psychadelian Waltz
Delia's Resolve
Delia's Dream
Delia's Reverie
Delia's Fulfilment
Aztec
- 01. Chronicle Title Theme
- 02. Mayan architecture
- 03. The Aztec Empire
- 04. Aztec Culture at Tenochtitlan
- 05. Human Sacrifice and Aztec Gods
- 06. Portents of Doom
- 07. Running Red with Human Blood
- 08. Between Two Great Volcanoes
- 09. Five human hearts, still warm and steaming
- 10. Skull racks
- 11. Exquisite featherwor
